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Video: Jim Clark's last race

It so happened that 1968 started as his lucky year: in South Africa, the Scot Jim Clark took his 25th grand prix victory and was therefore down at the time became the most successful driver in the 18-year history of Formula 1. Just weeks later, Clark was killed in a comparatively low-key Formula 2 race in Germany at the daunting Hockenheimring. The cause of this fatal accident was put down to a puncture during a run through the forest section of the high-speed circuit – but there were no eyewitnesses. His death shook the entire sporting to its core, motorsport lost a true hero. Clark, son of a sheep farmer, was seen as a virtuoso at the steering wheel and will always be regarded as one...
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